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She gave him a hard glare, then started to leave. SIXTEEN Dougless sat on the twin bedin the bed-and-breakfast and looked across at Nicholas in the other bed. She saw the shadows from the room darken. “You but knelt by the tomb—my tomb—and asked for a .

“Nay, we have no more to say,” he answered. What was she supposed to do, lasso him? Right, she thought, tie him up and tell him she was from the future and she had come back through time to save his neck—literally. Willem was overcome when he saw the great flat mountain standing clear in the sunlight, for it symboized his longing. He learned that he was the younger brother of the powerful Karel van Doorn, but he also learned that Karel had little regard for his brother and knew him to be troublesome.